532 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 13 of 27
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 12, 1966
L. S. O'Rourke to J. A. Riddle on California State Health Board Inspection of the King City Plant (1966)
Internal correspondence on the subject "Asbestos Dust - King City Plant" stating that a California State Health Board inspection of the King City mine and mill was understood to be scheduled for July 26. It asks Riddle to call Paul McDaniel about…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1969
R. G. Woolery to R. W. Rebholz on Asbestos R&D Costs and Sales by Market Category (1969)
Internal correspondence from the Research and Development Department reviewing 1969 asbestos R&D spending against sales in paper additives, flooring, export and new applications for 1967-1969. The writer recommended raising the R&D effort to about…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 27, 1963
Thomas W. Nale to Kenneth Lentz Transmitting P. W. McDaniel's Industrial Hygiene Report on the King City Mine and Plant (1963)
Internal correspondence from the Medical Director transmitting an industrial hygiene report by Paul W. McDaniel on his September 10-13, 1963 visit to the King City mine and plant. The attached report describes airborne dust sampling, recommends…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 20, 1964
J. W. Potter, Investigation into an Uncontrolled Reaction in a DPP Storage Tank (1964)
Memorandum reporting an investigation of an uncontrolled decomposition reaction on August 30, 1964 in a storage tank of dipropionyl peroxide (DPP) at the Montreal plant. It describes the sequence of events, analysis of the tank contents, equipment…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 2, 1964
C. W. McGary and G. W. Rausch, New Enterprises Status Report on Chemical Reactions of Asbestos (1964)
Status report, Project 162D21, on laboratory work to attach reactive organic groups to chrysotile asbestos by reaction with acrylic acid, anion exchange, and adsorption of magnesium e-hydroxycaproate. It reports that the acrylate-modified asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 14, 1969
R. E. Byrne, Jr. to J. L. Myers on R-G244 Quality Control (1969)
Internal correspondence from the Niagara Falls Research and Development Department to the King City plant about quality control of R-G244. It follows a telephone conversation and customer comments on product variability. The memo recommends a lower…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 3, 1968
G. L. Dickson Technical Service Report on Asbestos T-135 as a Partial Replacement for Titanium Dioxide at Brown Company, Holyoke (1968)
…Mill Trial Data Sheet: equipment, furnish makeup, asbestos addition, trial log, and a machine diagram Distribution list of Union Carbide personnel and locations Cover note from G. L. Dickson to T. E. Dougherty dated September 10…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 4, 1968
J. A. Riddle to Paul McDaniels transmitting a newspaper article on mesothelioma among asbestos workers (1968)
A one-paragraph internal memo from J. A. Riddle at King City to Paul McDaniels of the Medical Department in New York, enclosing an article given to the King City office by a local doctor. The attached item is a San Francisco Chronicle clipping dated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 13, 1968
D. S. Kamens to J. A. Riddle on the December 12, 1968 Dust Survey at King City (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting the results of a dust survey taken on December 12, 1968 at the King City, California facility. It lists numbered sample results in MPPCF by location, including bagging, fence line, refiner…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 28, 1967
T. F. Frangos to Dr. T. J. Hall and F. D. Dexter to T. F. Frangos on the Asbestos Fiber Importers Committee (1967)
Letter, T. F. Frangos to Dr. T. J. Hall, Union Carbide Belgium, Sept. 28, 1967, on the Asbestos Fiber Importers Committee Memo, F. D. Dexter to T. F. Frangos, Sept. 20, 1967, suggesting replies to Hall…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 20, 1964
N. H. Ketcham, Industrial Hygiene Summary Report for Chemicals-Olefins-Plastics Divisions, July 1 - December 31, 1963 (1964)
Semiannual industrial hygiene summary report submitted by N. H. Ketcham covering July-December 1963 for the Chemicals-Olefins-Plastics Divisions. It summarizes plant and laboratory reports on noise, toxic vapors, dust, ventilation, radioactive…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 25, 1967
R. E. Byrne, Jr., Report on UCC Resin-Grade 144 Asbestos as a Whisker Reinforcement for Thermoplastic Resins (1967)
A research report marked Business Confidential that presents test data on reinforcing vinyl, styrene and polyolefin thermoplastic resins with UCC Resin-Grade 144 (R-G144) chrysotile asbestos. It compares R-G144 with Canadian chrysotile and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to J. E. Finch and Others on Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibers (1969)
A one-page memo from Dr. R. E. Joyner to five Texas City recipients, referring to a recent letter from P. G. Bonin of the Consumer Products Division about the hazard of asbestos fibers. Joyner said he agreed with the letter except that further…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1969
K. S. Lane to C. Benjamin and Others on the Revised Asbestos Toxicology Report (1969)
…Toxicology Report text (2 million particles per cubic foot TLV, mesothelioma discussion); page 5 is unreadable in the OCR Asbestos Toxicology Report on Union Carbide letterhead, undated, using the 5 million particles per cubic foot TLV…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1969
J. A. Riddle to S. P. Smith on Major Hazards at the King City Plant (1969)
Internal correspondence listing four recognized major hazards at the King City plant: asbestos dust, fork trucks, motor vehicles and the propane fuel system. It states that employees are exposed to asbestos dust, describes dust controls and the new…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1969
R. G. Woolery to R. W. Rebholz on Asbestos R&D Costs and Sales by Market (1969)
Internal letter from the Research and Development Department to R. W. Rebholz, with a copy to L. P. Twichell, reviewing asbestos R&D spending against sales in four categories: paper additives, flooring, export and new applications. It reports…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1967
R. G. Woolery to Distribution List: Asbestos Research & Development Monthly Summary Report for May 1967 (1967)
Cover memo and monthly summary of Asbestos Research & Development work for May 1967, sent from Niagara Falls. It reports on pulp and paper mill trials, Asbestos "T" (asbestos-titanium dioxide) products made at the King City mill, plastics…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 7, 1967
C. U. Dernehl to T. J. Hall on the Sayers Report and Animal Injection Tests of Calidria Coalinga Fiber (1967)
Letter from Union Carbide's Associate Medical Director to Dr. T. J. Hall in Geneva reviewing the report "Asbestos as a Health Hazard in the United Kingdom" by I. C. Sayers, which he found reasonably accurate…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1964
A. W. Naumann and W. H. Dresher, Research Report No. 61: Physical Properties of Coalinga Asbestos, I. Morphology as Inferred from Nitrogen Adsorption Data (1964)
A 1964 Union Carbide Nuclear Division research report presenting nitrogen-adsorption surface-area measurements on Coalinga chrysotile asbestos (flake, bladed, serpentinite, cross-fiber, and pilot-plant products) compared with Canadian and Stragari (Serbia) chrysotile. It reports…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1967
W. P. Mulvaney and L. M. Robeson Project Report on Polysulfone-Chrysotile R-G 144 Asbestos Composites (1967)
Project report (No. 816-56, File No. 1064, supervisor J. A. Faucher) on compounding Coalinga chrysotile asbestos (R-G 144) into polysulfone at 1% to 25% loadings. It reports tensile, modulus, impact, heat distortion, stress-crack and fatigue test…